Helmuth James Graf von Moltke

Helmuth James Graf von Moltke (11 March 1907-23 January 1945) was a German jurist and leader of the German Resistance during World War II.

Biography
Helmuth James Graf von Moltke was born in Kreisau, Silesia, German Empire on 11 March 1907, the great-grandnephew of Helmuth von Moltke the Elder and the great-nephew of Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, both of which were prominent Imperial German Army commanders. He serveda s a legal expert in international law at the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces. He founded the Kreisau Circle, a resistance group which met at his Kreisau estate and which looked forward to a moral and political regeneration after Hitler on the basis of Christian-conservative principles. It was discovered in January 1944, when Moltke was imprisoned and sentenced to death in the wake of the 20 July plot. On 23 January 1945, he was hanged at Plotzensee Prison in Berlin.